UK’s biggest li-ion recycling plant set to open “within weeks”
Britain’s biggest facility for recycling lithium from batteries along with associated cobalt, manganese and & nickel, moved closer to reality today, as the Environment...
Industrial heat pumpers Futraheat raise glass to £1.5 million, eye up brewery trial
London-based industrial clean heat start-up Futraheat has closed a £1.5 million investment round led by green investors Clean Growth Fund. A brewery trial of...
US distribution, plus fresh investment, robes solar-with-thermal pioneers Naked in western splendour
Unique solar-electricity-with-thermal-heat (SPVT) pioneer Naked Energy today received investment and a distribution deal, opening a route into America’s newly energised green power sector.
The unexpected...
Rebel Energy & partner sign 3,000 households to receive blockchain-certified renewables
In a move claimed as a UK first, two debutant power partners say they’ve brought low carbon electricity certified by peer-to-peer blockchain to 3,000...
Into the (light) blue again: Fen-based graphene firm to decarb UAE’s oily gas
A £700 million British clean-tech export deal has been announced to extract and store up to half a million tonnes of CO2e in the...
‘Renewables acting like baseload’: Octopus joins Essex-based £16 Bn pipeline to Morocco
Green mega-investor Octopus is teaming up with Billericay-based energy entrepreneurs seeking to pump renewable electricity from southern Morocco to Britain.
Essex start-up Xlinks announced in...
Van diesel furious to be up against solar’s fast frigid air
On-roof solar electricity supplanting diesel as the preferred power source for truck refrigeration got a £3 million boost today.
Government-backed investment angels the Clean Growth...
Green search engine pinpoints solar PV platform with Euros 20 million
Environmentally-based web search app Ecosia – the internet minnow committed both to paying its taxes & to funding worldwide tree-planting– is investing Euros 20...
Wrapped or open? BP chips in for portion of fuel innovator
Oil giant BP today boosted its portfolio of next-generation transport fuels, as it snapped up 30% of Green Biofuels Ltd (GBF), Britain’s leading supplier...
Octopus to Canada’s civil servants: ‘Ta for your $300 million. More coming, eh?’
Christmas arrived early today for Octopus Energy Group, as Britain’s fast-growing generator-retailer commanding nearly 6% of domestic power accounts welcomed a $300 million equity...
Wake up to 8-hour storage: Ceres and RFC enjoy breakfast of (ch)Amps &...
Fuel cell firm Ceres Power this morning teamed up with RFC Power, an Imperial College spin-off, in quest of the world’s most efficient flow...
Morocco unbound: £16 billion green power pipe mooted to Devon giga-battery
British energy entrepreneurs Xlinks have unveiled ambitious plans to link solar and wind power generated in the Moroccan desert with UK power consumers via...
Developer Renewco launches with SSE’s blessing
A new clean power developer launched this week in Edinburgh, buoyed with £ 24 million worth of backing from industry giant SSE.
Renewco Power, co-led...